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| 2831474814 | Loess | A fine, light silt deposited by wind and water. It constitutes the fertile soil of the Yellow River Valley in northern China | 0 | |
| 2831474815 | Shang | The dominant people in the earliest Chinese dynasty for which we have written records (ca. 1750-1045 B.C.E.) | 1 | |
| 2831474816 | Zhou | The people and dynasty that took over the dominant position in north China from the Shang and created the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. The Zhou era, particularly the vigorous early period (1045-771 B.C.E.), was remembered in Chinese tradition as a time of prosperity and benevolent rule | 2 | |
| 2831474817 | Mandate of Heaven | Chinese religious and political ideology developed by the Zhou, according to which it was the prerogative of Heaven, the chief deity, to grant power to the ruler of China and to take away that power if the ruler failed to conduct himself justly and in the best interests of his subjects | 3 | |
| 2831475719 | Confucius | Western name for the Chinese philosopher Kongzi (551-479 B.C.E.). His doctrine of duty and public service had a great influence on subsequent Chinese thought and served as a code of conduct for government officials | 4 | |
| 2831475720 | Daoism | Chinese school of thought, originating in the Warring States Period with Laozi. Daoism offered an alternative to the Confucian emphasis on hierarchy and duty | 5 | |
| 2831475721 | Yin/Yang | In Chinese belief, complementary factors that help to maintain the equilibrium of the world. Yang is associated with masculine, light, and active qualities; yin with feminine, dark, and passive qualities | 6 | |
| 2831475722 | Kush | An Egyptian name for Nubia, the region alongside the Nile River south of Egypt, where an indigenous kingdom with its own distinctive institutions and cultural traditions arose beginning in the early second millennium B.C.E. | 7 | |
| 2831477590 | Meroë | Capital of a flourishing kingdom in southern Nubia from the fourth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. In this period Nubian culture shows more independence from Egypt and the influence of subSaharan Africa | 8 | |
| 2831479370 | Celts | Peoples sharing common linguistic and cultural features that originated in Central Europe in the first half of the first millennium B.C.E. | 9 | |
| 2831479371 | Druids | The class of religious experts who conducted rituals and preserved sacred lore among some ancient Celtic peoples | 10 | |
| 2831479372 | Olmec | The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., the Olmec people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction | 11 | |
| 2831480215 | Chavín | The first major urban civilization in South America (900-250 B.C.E.) | 12 | |
| 2831482269 | Llama | A hoofed animal indigenous to the Andes Mountains in South America. It was the only domesticated beast of burden in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans | 13 | |
| 2864695269 | Feng shui | Literally means "wind water"; Chinese art and science of placement and orientation of tombs, dwellings, buildings, cities; structures and objects are positioned in a way (often in line with the compass lines) to channel flows of energy in favorable ways | 14 | |
| 2864697277 | Divination | Techniques for ascertaining the future or the will of the gods by interpreting natural phenomena such as, in early China, the cracks on oracle bones or, in ancient Greece, the flight of birds through sectors of the sky | 15 | |
| 2864697278 | Oracle bones | Animal bones carved with written characters which were used for telling the future | 16 | |
| 2864697279 | Pictograms | A pictorial symbol or sign representing an object or concept; only small, educated elites had time to master this system | 17 | |
| 2864698647 | Warring States Period | The period from 475 BC until the unification of China (221 BC) under the Qin dynasty, characterized by lack of centralized government in China; it followed the Zhou dynasty | 18 | |
| 2864698648 | Legalism | In China, a political philosophy that emphasized the unruliness of human nature and justified state coercion and control; the Qin ruling class invoked it to validate the authoritarian nature of their regime | 19 | |
| 2864698649 | Confucianism | The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct | 20 | |
| 2864698650 | Ren | Benevolence | 21 | |
| 2864699796 | Mencius | Chinese philosopher, who studied Confucianism. He later refined many of the ideas and spread them across China; Mengzi | 22 | |
| 2864699797 | Laozi | The "Old Master" who encouraged people to give up worldly desires in favor of nature; he founded Daoism | 23 | |
| 2864699798 | Shang Dynasty | First dynasty of China that is on written records (1750-1045 B.C.) the form of writing developed in this era is still used today; originated around yellow river | 24 | |
| 2864699799 | Anyang | Ancient city in northern China built during the Shang dynasty; it was China's first capital | 25 | |
| 2864700767 | Nubia | Area south of Egypt; contains kingdoms of Kush and Meroe | 26 | |
| 2864703090 | Mesoamerica | A region of great geographic and climate diversity; civilizations of the Olmec and Chavin were here | 27 |
